BACTERIOSTASIS

bacteriostasis

(noun) inhibition of the growth of bacteria

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

bacteriostasis (countable and uncountable, plural bacteriostases)

(biology) A phase in which microbial organisms are prevented from undergoing further cell growth, without being actually killed.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

10 January 2025

INTERSPERSION

(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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